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Influencia de la dieta vegetariana higienista en los niveles de lípidos en plasma, parámetros antropométricos y de composición corporal : modulación …
2013
La dieta vegetariana higienista es un tipo de dieta vegetariana que se incluye dentro del método higienista, una de las ramas de la medicina naturista. El interés de su estudio se debe a su posible aplicación en el tratamiento y la prevención del sobrepeso, la obesidad y la dislipemia. Asimismo, la respuesta individual a los diferentes tipos de dieta, puede verse modulada por la presencia de polimorfismos genéticos. En el presente estudio se analiza la posible interacción gen*dieta entre diversos polimorfismos en genes candidatos con papel clave en el riesgo de obesidad y/o dislipemia en la respuesta a la dieta experimentada a nivel del perfil lipídico y parámetros antropométricos. En esta …
Impact of processing conditions on functionality of powders prepared from mixed protein system
2020
International audience; The projection of a global human population of around 9.5 billion by 2050 indicates that the demand for animal protein will double during this period. It seems therefore essential in regard to sustainability and food security to search for alternative protein sources that show nutritional and functional quality close to animal protein ones. In that respect, there is a growing interest in utilizing plant proteins as partial replacers of animal proteins in food. The reintroduction of plant proteins into our diet is a solution already envisaged by some vegetarian or flexitarian diets. In order to broaden this practice, one strategy is the use of protein mixes as an ingr…
Consumer selection of vegetarian food in restaurants
2015
Development, which began from agricultural and industrial revolutions has improved and eased human lives on this planet. But the massive growth of the human population has caused some serious environmental impacts on our planet. Millions of hectares of forests have been converted into arable land, fresh water resources are decreasing and oceans are getting overfished, while the demand for food continues to grow. Agriculture is the most important contributor to the climate change and global meat production sector causes more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than transport. By reducing the consumption of meat and increasing the proportion of vegetables in human diets, the environmental impa…
Monitoring a meat-free pledge with smartphones:An experimental study
2020
Pledges are a popular strategy to encourage meat reduction, though experimental studies of their efficacy are lacking. Three-hundred and twenty-five participants from three different countries (UK, Germany, Australia) were randomly assigned to pledge 28 days meat-free or not, and their behavior was tracked via smartphones. Participants answered daily surveys regarding their eating behavior, meat cravings, and shared photos of their meals. Baseline data was collected prior to the pledge, after the 28 days, and one-month post-intervention. Participants assigned to the pledge condition ate less meat across the 28 days, compared to control participants. Meat reductions, observed at outtake, did…
To Eat or Not to Eat? A Short Path from Vegetarianism to Cannibalism
2018
Subjective reasoning and chemical composition are not the sole arbiters of our systems of alimentary taste; consumption of food is also defined by cultural orientation and other complex value systems. There are those who choose to consume only plant matter to respect the rights of animals, equally there are those who consume pets without a second thought. What informs these choices depends on how we understand our own place in the world, the values we attribute to the things that surrounds us, the relationships we maintain with our fellow beings and those with living things in general. It is in the space between those variable definitions that we find food taboos and the complex stories whi…
Altri cibi. Il packaging degli alimenti veg
2017
Il tema di questo contributo riguarda il packaging dei prodotti vegani e vegetariani nel mercato italiano della distribuzione organizzata. La scelta degli ambiti del packaging della gdo e del vegetarianismo ha a che fare con le attuali tendenze dietetiche che, come spesso accade con le scelte e le mode alimentari, mentre si diffondono massivamente si intrecciano tra di loro. Se, infatti, in linea di principio l’astensione dal mangiare carne è il passaggio giusto e inevitabile per portare avanti coerentemente gli interessi degli esseri animali, ed è dunque espressione di una presa di posizione etico-politica animalista, è vero che cibi vegani e vegetariani sempre più spesso entrano a far par…